Series 5269

Weber County (Utah). Clerk of the County Court 1880 Census Lists of Persons

Dates: 1880.

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These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

This series contains a List of Persons (census form 7-392) for each of five 1880 Federal Census enumeration districts in Weber County. Individuals in each district are listed alphabetically by surname along with their color, sex, and age. The covers of several of the booklets are missing, but those that remain have notations that indicate that they were filed with the County Clerk. Precincts covered in the five booklets include Ogden 2nd and 3rd (municipal) Wards, Huntsville, Mound Fort, Lynne, Marriott, Riverdale, and Uintah.

These lists were created as part of the procedure outlined by the federal law authorizing the 1880 census and were used to determine how much each enumerator was to be paid. According to The History and Growth of the United States Census (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900), p. 61-62:

"the enumerator was directed to forward the original schedules, duly certified, to the supervisor of his district, but before doing this, he was required, under the terms of section 6 of the act of April 20, 1880, to make and file in the office of the clerk of the county court or in the office of the court or board administering the affairs of the county to which his district belongs, a list of the names, with age, sex, and color, of all persons enumerated by him, which he shall certify to be true, and for which he shall be paid at the rate of 10 cents for each 100 names."

Because these records were used as a kind of invoice for services, they probably were not of much use to the county clerk once payment had been made and most of them would have been discarded. Booklets were presumably created for all the enumeration districts in Weber County, but only these five have survived.